I will be on the air with the illustrious Charles Heller of
LibertyWatchRadio, next Saturday, March 4th, at 1 PM Mountain Standard
time. Charles has recently been chosen to step into the late Aaron
Zelman's shoes at Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, a
big job for a big man, and I'm proud to be associated with him.

We'll be talking about my new book Down With Power, so try not to
miss it. For those not in the Phoenix area, the show will be listenable
as an archive at LibertyWatch.com/listen.
Those listening live can call in at numbers listed at the website.

CHICAGO, Jan. 23, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A nationwide
boycott of Starbucks stores and its products will be launched on
Valentine's Day 2012. Its goal is to eliminate the risk of guns in
public places and ultimately to bring sane gun laws to the U.S.

This boycott is being called by the National Gun Victim's Action
Council (NGAC) ( http://gunvictimsaction.org/ ), a network of 14 million
gun victims, the faith community including the: Episcopal Peace
Fellowship, United Church of Christ, Fellowship of Reconciliation (46
peace fellowships and 43 affiliate fellowships), secular groups working
to reduce gun violence and many of the organizations that support
passing sane gun laws.

WHY STARBUCKS? Currently, Starbucks allows guns and assault weapons to
be openly carried in its stores (in 43 states) and concealed and carried
in its stores (in 49 states). Starbucks' compliance with the National
Rifle Association's Pro-Gun Agenda was exposed in 2010 when members of
the "open carry" movement began meeting in popular chains, such as
California Pizza Kitchen, Peets, IKEA, Disney and Starbucks openly
carrying their handguns and assault rifles.

To protect their customers and employees, all of the retail
chains -- except for Starbucks -- banned guns from being carried in their
stores. [But NOT in Sears, Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart, Lowes, Home
Depot, Wells Fargo, US Bank, and hundreds of other large retailers and
service providers as well as millions of smaller businesses.]

"Starbucks allowing guns to be carried in thousands of their stores
significantly increases everyone's risk of being a victim of gun
violence," says Elliot Fineman, CEO of the NGAC. "Open and conceal and
carry are among the reasons there are 12,000 gun homicides each year in
the U.S. If we had England's gun laws we would expect 375 gun homicides
each year -- 97% less than we have. England's gun laws are based on
protecting public safety, ours on maximizing sales for the gun
industry."

Starbucks has the legal right to ban guns but despite having been
petitioned by thousands, asked at a shareholder meeting, and a direct
appeal made to their Board, Starbucks clings to this policy that puts
millions of Americans at risk every day and encourages the spread of
guns being carried in public.

IMPACT OF STARBUCKS BOYCOTT: Fineman says, "Starbucks steadfast
support of the NRA's lethal pro-gun agenda damages its 'socially
conscious company' brand. Further," adds Fineman, "Monte Carlo
Simulation risk analysis indicates that 90% of the time, our boycott
will reduce Starbucks stock price by an amount no rational company would
allow." According to NGAC, the boycott will end when Starbucks rejects the
NRA's Pro-Gun agenda by banning all guns from their stores and
committing to be an Aggressive Corporate Advocate for sane gun laws.

TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STARBUCKS BOYCOTT:
http://gunvictimsaction.org/starbucks-boycott/

Yum! Coffee for Valentine's! I can't wait! Too bad I don't have an
assault rifle to take with me. Ah well.

I Want My Future Backby L. Neil Smith
I'm preparing a lecture about settling Mars for a convention next
month. As a writer, lots of my work is done by my unconscious mind, so I wasn't surprised
when I woke up this morning, thinking about a movie that influenced me greatly back in the
mid-50s, when I was in fifth grade.
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Flash Editorials January 28, 2012by Russell D. Longcore
Business: A tiny percent of the 1% are meeting in Davos,
Switzerland this week at the World Economic Forum to discuss how they are going to
run the world. About 2,600 delegates will be in attendance, from German President
Angela Merkel to Warren Buffet to over 70 other billionaires who consider themselves
the elite. I can nearly guarantee that returning to gold-backed money for sovereign
states will NOT be on the discussion group schedule. And despite the Davros airport
being choked with Gulfstream and Citation private jets, these Keynesian business and
government morons will surely talk about global warming issues and everybody's "carbon
footprint." I'd like to leave my footprint on all their asses.
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The Hunta story
by Neale Osborn
I certainly didn't set out that day to befriend a heathen savage. No,
far from it. I set out to kill one. Or several. I'd found the remains
of that settler's wagon. The dead bodies. The killed and eaten mules.
Indians LOVE to eat mules. They seem to prefer them to beef and even
buffalo. They'd looted and burned the wagon. I was gonna hunt'em down
and take a few scalps of my own. I had me a nice Colt revolver, and a
Winchester rifle, both in .44-40, and I had the righteousness of
revenge in my heart. No, the settlers were strangers to me, stumbled
upon while riding from my last job, driving cattle from Bozeman to the
rails in Kansas City.
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The unabridged audio version of my 1983 novel The Nagasaki Vector,
brilliantly read by the great libertarian radio host Brian Wilson, is finally
available for purchase.

Many feel that this is the funniest book I've written so farat least
intentionallyand features our old friend Win Bear, G. Howell Nahuatl, a
sapient coyote, time traveler Bernie Gruenblum, and Georgie, the time machine
who loves him.